google-earth anybody?

[Ric Moore]

On 07/30/2012 05:20 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 30 July 2012 04:16:55 Ric Moore did opine:
>
>> On 07/29/2012 03:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> Greetings all;
>>>
>>> I first tried to dl and install with dpkg, the current version from
>>> google. No dice, can't find its binary pieces, bales out.
>>>
>>> Then I found the make-googleearth-package utility and installed that,
>>> then ran it, which downloaded yet another copy from google.  Then it
>>> failed, missing dependency's.  Fired up synaptic, used fix broken to
>>> pull in several other bit & pieces.  Re-ran the make script, bailed
>>> out on versions & recommended I use the --force option.
>>>
>>> That squawked about 200 or so libraries it couldn't find the versions
>>> of, but made a package anyway, so I installed it.
>>>
>>> Now it fusses about lack of direct-x availability, which I assume
>>> nouveau doesn't have, but regardless of which box I check on the
>>> startup requester, google-earth's startup advisory box just goes
>>> away.
>>>
>>> Has anyone succeeded in making google-earth run on a ubuntu
>>> 10.04-4-122- rtai system?
>>
>> Gene, ole buddy, ole friend. Why are you using Nouveau and expecting it
>> to do useful stuff? Don't make me come up to WV to hurt you. Use
>> "additional drivers" and get your nVidia card installed correctly. It's
>> not like you ever listened to Stallman anyway. <chuckles> Ric
>
> Well, its not like it isn't working pretty well these days Ric.  Not quite
> as fast as the nvidia driver, but a hell of a lot less hassle.  But the
> main reason is that the nvidia driver gets some of its speed by totally
> locking out the IRQ's for hundreds of microseconds at a time.  I know for a
> fact that it is absolutely verboten if you want to be able to move stepper
> motors more than 3 or 4 rpms with self generated steps.

You're wanting to have google earth running on your milling machine 
setup?? I think that would blow the dickens out of "latency" overall. 
It's a blooming monster that traditionally eats up cpu and ram like a 
junkyard goat. But, bottom line, you need accelerated graphics, and a 
bunch of vram would help. Nouveau still doesn't do that. I bought an 
nVidia card with 2 gigs of vram for under $50. <cackles> Ric


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